Environmental groups find themselves in odd position with new coal plant

Consumers Energy wants to build a new coal generation plant in Bay City. About 40 years ago I went to an open house at a then-new coal plant there. They are huge!

The environmental groups oppose this plant because they want electricity produced without making C02. Nuclear power is the answer to this but they oppose that solution also. Natural gas and clear-cut wood chips both produce CO2, so they are out. This leaves solar and wind.

But where will we get our electricity at night when there is no wind?

This leaves us in the strange situation that Consumers Energy wants to build a modern, new plant and shut down older plants. This will reduce pollution. But the environmental groups want to keep the old plants open and continue the same pollution we have now.